A family say they were spooked when their road trip turned into a UFO encounter as a star unexpectedly appeared in the sky - and rapidly started to move.

Jay Mitchell was driving his wife and daughter near the US city of Keokuk, Iowa, when they caught sight of a presence "hanging in the air".

He videoed the unexplained encounter - and says even his daughter is convinced it was an aliens.

He said: “We noticed it in the sky because it was a huge bright star and we thought it was odd that there was a bright star during daytime.

“It was not moving for a few minutes, but we started filming when it began moving across the sky.”

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